Today is the 24th birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

Best known for catalyzing the #OpenAccess movement in 2002, the BOAI has been continuously active and formed a nonprofit organization just last year.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-transitioning-to-organization-to-support-the-development-of-equitable-open-access/

See the org's progress report on its first year.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-celebrates-anniversary-and-reflects-on-progress-of-first-year-as-an-organization/

The latest version of the BOAI recommendations is its 20th anniversary statement.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

In contrast to the earlier BOAI statements, which made many recommendations, the 20th anniversary statement deliberately focuses on a small number of top priorities:

1. Adopting #OpenInfrastructure
2. Reforming #ResearchAssessment
3. Moving away from #APCs
4. Moving away from #ReadAndPublish agreements.

I'm proud of my contributions to #BOAI (2002), #BOAI10 (2012), and #BOAI20 (2022), and honored to serve on the org steering committee.

Happy #ValentinesDay to all who work for #OpenAccess worldwide.

#Metadata mutability may sound harmless, but it can distort research metrics and misattribute credit.
To ensure fair and responsible #ResearchAssessment in #OpenScience, freezing & versioning metadata is critical.
Here, #OpenAIREGraph CTO @paolomanghi breaks down both the risks and possible solutions.
🔗 Read the article: https://shorturl.at/h93pq
#FAIR #OpenData #OpenAccess #ScholarlyKnowledgeGraph

RE: https://mastodon.social/@OpenAIRE/115888469366176388

#ABACUS will be built on the #OpenAIREGraph, learn more about this exciting initiative that will reshape #ResearchAssessment in Greece!

Greece is taking an important step toward transparent and evidence-based research monitoring. 🇬🇷

ABACUS, a new national service developed by HEAL-Link in collaboration with OpenAIRE, will offer a coherent, open view of Greek scholarly research, aligned with European Open Science standards and EOSC.

👉 Read the article: https://www.openaire.eu/abacus-a-new-national-service-for-monitoring-greek-research-and-open-science

#OpenScience #ResearchAssessment #EOSC #OpenAIRE

Uni-Präsident Prof. Oliver Günther wurde als der einzige deutsche Vertreter in das Steering Board der Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) gewählt.

CoARA ist eine internationale Initiative, die sich für eine faire, transparente und qualitative Weiterentwicklung der Bewertung wissenschaftlicher Forschung einsetzt.

Zur Medienmitteilung: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachrichten/detail/2026-01-08-forschung-transparent-bewerten-uni-praesident-prof-oliver-guenther-ins-steering-board-von-coara-gewaehlt

#CoARA #researchassessment #collaboration #international #research #forschung

Without mentioning any consideration of the damages the current #genAI tools are having on our societies and democracies? Sigh.

Also, this does not address the underlying issues of the way that the current #ResearchAssessment and funding is driven by neoliberal values. Something of which these blogposts also reek off..

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Conflating "Responsible Metrics" with "Responsible Assessment" is a common strategic error in research management.

Responsible Metrics focus on data sources and quantification (the technical side). Responsible Assessment focuses on institutional processes, ethics, and people (the political/governance side).

Adopting better data tools (like OpenAlex) without reforming decision-making cultures is not a solution. It is often just a way to make the same mistakes using better data.

My latest analysis on why this distinction is critical for policy design: https://copdeb.com/2025/12/22/diferencia-metricas-responsable-evaluacion-responsable/

#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #CoARA #Bibliometrics #SciPol #ResearchManagement

Bogota Manifesto:
Towards an Open, Democratic and Socially Relevant Science in Latin America and the Caribbean
https://sfdora.org/2025/12/19/bogota-manifesto/

Three strategic pillars 👇

One of 11 guiding principles:

Critical #pedagogy: Foster training and collective reflection on #OpenScience and responsible assessment as transformative practices

#SFDORA #ResearchAssessment #REF2029

New research in Journal of Informetrics asked 2,300+ social scientists from 42 countries: what are your top-3 publications?

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2025.101757

Only ~40% of self-identified “top” works also ranked in the author’s top-3 by citations. Even tripling citation counts wouldn’t push nearly a third of them into the bibliometric top. And 17% of “best” works don’t even appear in Scopus - especially in sociology and political science.

#Metrics #Bibliometrics #ResearchAssessment #Citations

📚 The GraspOS Course: Rethinking Research Assessment is now live on the OpenPlato platform, offering a quick, practical and approachable way to explore the tools and ideas driving today’s transformation in research evaluation.

➡️ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dTHDf3fV
➡️ Access the course: https://lnkd.in/dP-SDesm

@OpenAIRE
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #GraspOS

📘 New Publication: Promising stories from the GraspOS Pilot studies

In this booklet, we present the implementation pathways and outcomes of the nine GraspOS Pilot studies, aimed at advancing Responsible Research Assessment (RRA) and strengthening Open Science practices across the European Research Area.

In the past three years, the GraspOS Pilots co-designed, validated, and evaluated Open Science-aware indicators, tools, and services for RRA across three assessment contexts:
* Funding agencies and national stakeholders using infrastructure to support funding evaluation processes.
* Universities, including departments and research groups, interested in recruitment and assessment.
* Thematic disciplines that establish domain-specific assessment criteria aligned with disciplinary needs.
The booklet offers concise narratives highlighting the activities, results, and insights from each Pilot.

🔗 Learn more and access the full booklet here: https://graspos.eu/promising-stories-from-the-graspos-pilot-studies

@OpenAIRE @opencitations @utrechtuniversity @inria @cwts @BarcelonaDORI @DORAssessment
@CoARAssessment
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #ReformingRA #CoARA #BarcelonaDORI #DORA

Trustworthy #research information doesn’t emerge by chance, it must be designed into our infrastructures & workflows.
At #euroCRIS2025 Angeliki Tzouganatou presented the talk "Trust by Design", where she laid out how #OpenInfrastructures support responsible assessment through #transparency, #interoperability, & #community governance.

🔗Get more insights from the event https://tinyurl.com/45xw36sx

#ResearchAssessment #CRISSystems #CRIS #CoARA

Upcoming Event

This Monday, 8:00–9:00 CET, OpenAIRE CEO Natalia Manola joins a high-level panel at the IAP Triennial Conference to discuss how reforming research assessment can drive trust, quality & meaningful impact in science.

Co-organised by @CoARAssessment @ALLEA & GYA.

🔗 Details: https://www.openaire.eu/community/events/eventdetail/1536/from-metrics-to-meaning-how-reforming-research-assessment-drives-innovation-impact-and-trust-in-science

🔗 Conference: https://asrt-iap.eg.net/

#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #CoARA #SciencePolicy #IAP2025

Although, or perhaps precisely because, the participants at the Research Assessment conference tend to be experienced and committed individuals, it is a very interesting conference. Many challenges are addressed, and at the same time it is motivating to see how small steps can change thinking and behaviour with regard to cultural change in science.

#cerra2025 #researchAssessment #openscience #CoARA #DORA #CoARACopenhagen @DORAssessment @CoARAssessment

Participation in the breakout session "Leadership in change" at the CeRRA conference. Interesting perspectives and examples of the implementation of research assessment in institutions and the role that leadership play in this process.
The audience was also involved, and the mood was captured with red and green cards.

What would you choose? Choose one card

#cerra2025 #researchAssessment #openscience #CoARA #DORA #CoARACopenhagen @DORAssessment @CoARAssessment

Happy Birthday to CoARA
Celebrating three years of Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment in Denmark at Aalborg University in Copenhagen

#cerra2025 #researchAssessment #openscience #CoARA #DORA #CoARACopenhagen @DORAssessment @CoARAssessment

⏰ Starting today at 11.00 CET: don't miss our last GraspOS webinar on GoTriple's developments: Knowledge graphs and responsible metrics for SSH assessment

The GoTriple platform is adding new discovery and enrichment features under European projects LUMEN and GRAPHIA. This webinar will show how these technical developments support the responsible use of quantitative metrics in research assessment, and how knowledge graphs can offer significant insights in the SSH domain.

➡️ Learn more: https://graspos.eu/training-material
➡️ Registration is still open: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/pRN6fMBOTpKaqi7xpvS0AA#/registration

@OpenAIRE @operaseu
#OpenScience #ResearchAssessment #ReformingRA #GoTriple #LUMEN #GRAPHIA

In preparation of the EU High-Level Presidency Conference on Reforming Research Assessment (CeRRA), held in Copenhagen on Dec 3-4, 2025, the present report presents findings from ten case studies of international research funding agencies including public agencies, private foundations, independent research charities, and mission-driven institutions.

https://www.cerra.aau.dk/new-report-from-aau-n155893

#cerra2025 #researchAssessment #openscience #CoARA #DORA @DORAssessment @CoARAssessment

For ten years, #CRediT 🎂 has offered 14 standardized contributor roles that make authorship transparent: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03860-5

But there is a clear gap: CRediT has no place for #AI tools. So how should we properly disclose the use of ChatGPT & Co in research? One answer is #GAIDeT - Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy https://w3id.org/gaidet

#ResearchIntegrity #Responsible #OpenScience #Infrastructure #AIinResearch #Metadata #ResearchAssessment #AIinScience #AIethics

Check your mail! In the November #newsletter, find out about:

💫 Highlights from the #GraspOS Final Conference “Opening Research Assessment”, with slides available in our dedicated Zenodo collection https://zenodo.org/communities/graspos-finalconference/records

💎 SCOPE+i Resources for RRA are now available, browse through the set of tools designed to support all kinds of research assessment processes for research organisations

💎 Next webinar on GoTriple developments, knowledge graphs and responsible metrics for SSH assessment: join us online on 3rd December at 11:00 CET

…and more news and events from the Open Science and RRA community ➡️ graspos.eu/newsletters

#OpenScience #ResearchAssessment #ReformingRA #OpeningRA @cwts @vergoulis @OpenAIRE @opencitations